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Serious About Business Innovation? So Is Orlando.

PCMA Convene

When the Society for Simulation in Healthcare chose Orlando to host its International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) — the world’s largest conference dedicated to health-care simulation learning, research, and scholarship — this past January, it wasn’t so attendees would bring along their families to the country’s No.

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Smart Women 2017: Entrepreneurs

SmartMeetings

I truly love working with course directors of medical meetings, knowing that we help train thousands to impact the lives of millions by helping clients create memorable events. Company or organization: Koncept Events in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. First job: I was raised on a farm, so my first job was as a farmhand.

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Smart Women 2017 – Entrepreneurs

SmartMeetings

I truly love working with course directors of medical meetings, knowing that we help train thousands to impact the lives of millions by helping clients create memorable events. Company or organization: Koncept Events in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. First job: I was raised on a farm, so my first job was as a farmhand.

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How To Minimize Unconscious Bias At Your Meeting

PCMA Convene

From discussing health-care reform at medical meetings, to talking about privacy concerns at IT conferences, a business event can be the friendly playground where attendees discuss particularly controversial topics. Solutions like mandatory diversity training have been shown to somewhat backfire.”. CREATING THE RIGHT CULTURE.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. We wanted PCMA to expand and to be more proactive in the convention industry,” said Nichols, speaking from her home in Florida, where she is retired. PCMA staffer John Oliver was the first editor.) But Go Ahead and Interrupt Men.

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